Max Hayslette (born Maxwell Hayslette; June 11, 1929 [1] ) is an American painter, exhibit designer and graphic artist. He is best known for his landscape and abstract paintings which have been broadly marketed throughout the United States, and internationally, in the form of limited-edition serigraph and giclee prints.
Born in Rupert, West Virginia, Hayslette showed artistic ability early in life and began exhibiting his work at venues including the Allied Artists of West Virginia and West Virginia Women's Club art exhibits when he was still in high school. [2] Graduating as valedictorian of his class in 1948, [3] he studied for two years at the American Academy of Art in Chicago and subsequently attended classes at the Art Institute of Chicago where his teachers included Egon Weiner and Alexander Archipenko. [4] In 1952, he began working for Kenneth Olson Design in Chicago. Except for a period of military service in 1953–1954, he remained with Olson until relocating in Seattle in 1961. [5]
Hayslette joined Martin Berg and Associates, interior and exhibit designers, in Seattle in 1962. His assignments during the next decade included developing major exhibits for industrial clients including Boeing, Mitsubishi and Georgia-Pacific, and designing pavilions for four World’s Fairs. [6] Winning acclaim for his State of Alaska pavilions at both the 1962 Seattle, and 1964 New York World’s Fairs, Hayslette’s Australia Pavilion at the 1974 Spokane World’s Fair was singled out by the New York Times as the Fair’s “most successful” exhibit in reflecting the event’s environmentally friendly theme. [7]
In 1973, Hayslette founded Olympus Graphics. The Seattle-based company produced affordable, large-scale (up to 8 feet in length) limited-edition serigraphs featuring artwork by Hayslette for corporate and hotel interior decoration. Olympus Graphics developed a nationwide clientele before being acquired, and renamed Grand Image, by Larry Winn in 1984. [8]
While Hayslette continued to create original artwork for Grand Image, he focused increasingly on pursuing his own painting interests in the ensuing years. Equally conversant in realism and abstraction, his work has since been featured in dozens of solo shows at galleries in the states of Washington, California, North Carolina and West Virginia, and at institutions including the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art and West Virginia University. [9] The latter institution holds an extensive collection of Hayslette’s work as well as personal papers documenting his long and diverse career. [10]
A Century of Progress International Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, was a world's fair held in the city of Chicago, Illinois, United States, from 1933 to 1934. The fair, registered under the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE), celebrated the city's centennial. The theme of the fair was technological innovation, and its motto was "Science Finds, Industry Applies, Man Adapts", trumpeting the message that science and American life were wedded. Its architectural symbol was the Sky Ride, a transporter bridge perpendicular to the shore on which one could ride from one side of the fair to the other.
The Century 21 Exposition was a world's fair held April 21, 1962, to October 21, 1962, in Seattle, Washington, United States. Nearly 10 million people attended the fair during its six-month run.
Kehinde Wiley is an American portrait painter based in New York City, who is known for his highly naturalistic paintings of Black people, frequently referencing the work of Old Master paintings. He was commissioned in 2017 to paint a portrait of former President Barack Obama for the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, which has portraits of all previous American presidents. The Columbus Museum of Art, which hosted an exhibition of his work in 2007, describes his work as follows: "Wiley has gained recent acclaim for his heroic portraits which address the image and status of young African-American men in contemporary culture."
Irwin Caplan, nicknamed Cap, was an American illustrator, painter, designer and cartoonist, best known as the creator of The Saturday Evening Post cartoon series, Famous Last Words, which led to newspaper syndication of the feature in 1956.
Harry Shoulberg was an American expressionist painter. He was known to be among the early group of WPA artists working in the screen print (serigraph) medium, as well as oil.
Joseph Harry Anderson was an American illustrator and a member of the Illustrator's Hall of Fame. A devout Seventh-day Adventist artist, he is best known for Christian-themed illustrations he painted for the Adventist church and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was also a popular illustrator of short stories in American weekly magazines during the 1930s and early 1940s.
Raymond Kursar is an American artist, illustrator and graphic designer; known for his Broadway play posters, fine giclee limited edition prints and the movie classic Gone with the Wind collector's plate collection.
Unity Bainbridge was a Canadian artist and writer of poetry inspired by the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast and its landscape.
Charles Seliger was an American abstract expressionist painter. He was born in Manhattan June 3, 1926, and he died on 1 October 2009, in Westchester County, New York. Seliger was one of the original generation of abstract expressionist painters connected with the New York School.
Vladimir Kush is a Russian born American painter, jewelry designer and sculptor. He studied at the Surikov Moscow Art Institute, and after several years working as an artist in Moscow, his native city, he emigrated to the United States, eventually establishing his own gallery on the island of Maui in Hawaii. His oil paintings are also sold as giclée prints which contributed to his popularity and led to the establishment of further galleries in Laguna Beach, California, and Las Vegas, Nevada, Miami, Florida. The artist has become part of the American cultural environment and is inspiring others. He is the only Russian artist in the US who has his own galleries where prints account for 80% of sales. European recognition came in 2012 with receiving from the hands of Marina Picasso prestigious Artiste du Monde award in Cannes.
Robert Bruce Inverarity was an American artist, art educator, museum director, author, and anthropologist. He was the Washington State Director of the Federal Arts Project from 1936 to 1939 and the Washington Arts Project from 1939 to 1941, working with many noted Pacific Northwest artists. Fascinated with the Indian tribes of the Northwest from early youth, he amassed a major collection of North Pacific Coast Native art and authored several works on the subject.
Bernece Berkman (1911–1988), known as Bernece Berkman-Hunter after marriage, was an American painter born in Chicago, Illinois. She was inspired by what she saw in urban Chicago during the Great Depression and is best known for paintings depicting the plight of industrial workers and the poor.
Lily Irene Jackson, was an American artist and arts organizer active in West Virginia who specialized in paintings of animals.
Americo Makk was a painter and portrait artist from Hungary. In 1962, he emigrated to the United States with his family to escape the communist movement in Hungary. His paintings include historical and ecclesiastical portraits and murals, including portraits of two United States Presidents, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, as well as notable figures such as Edward Teller, Eva Gabor, Barbara Sinatra, Ray Price, and Barbara Carrera.
Robert Morris Donley is an American artist who has been identified with the Chicago Imagist movement. Judith Wilson of the Village Voice called him the "Chicago imagist Tolstoy." The narrative aspects of his work center on broad social and political statements that are complex--often playful and satirical with respect to ways in which propaganda, power, and social diversity mix with and conflict with historical and religious personalities. In his career retrospective in 2000 at the Chicago Cultural Center, Dr. Paul Jaskot wrote that "his art investigates the changing political and social geographies of [the modern] city."
Gladys M. Lux (1899-2003) was an American artist and educator, known for painting and printmaking.
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Preston Wadley is an American multimedia artist based in Seattle, Washington.
Public art of the Washington State Ferries system includes artwork on all or nearly all of the state's 23 ferries, available for viewing by millions of passengers annually. In addition to the public art installed aboard vessels, new terminal projects are required to set aside funds for artwork under Washington state law; a Kickstarter campaign funded art at the Banbridge Island terminal; and in one case, the hull of a former state ferry – MV Kalakala – is in the process of being repurposed as public art. Prior to the 2017 commissioning of the MV Chimacum, Washington State Ferries examined over 200 pieces of art before selecting 16 for display. Artwork for MV Suquamish was created by members of the Suquamish Tribe and selected by the tribal museum, to be displayed starting in 2018 for six to 12 years before replacement and return of the piece to the museum.